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While The Red Sox were celebrating their World Championship in The Boston Streets, The Yankees made a move.

The Yankees announced they agreed to terms with the 35-year-old outfielder on a one-year contract after declining the $12.5 million club option on his previous deal. The new contract will pay Gardner $7.5 million this season, and he will get a $2 million buyout from the Yankees declining the option. Is this a good move? Gardner batted in the .230’s last season. He will be a year older and more prone to injuries. You decide. EDB

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Redman was born in Brighton. Her father, Ronald Jack Redman (1929–1980), was born in Camberwell, London to parents from Yorkshire, and her mother, Joan Beryl Redman (née Herrington, 1927-2014), was born in India as the daughter of William Herrington, a British Indian Army soldier. Redman’s father, who was two years younger than her mother, died at the age of 51 in 1980, when Redman was 23. Redman had one brother, who died in 2012.[2]

Redman is badly scarred on her upper left arm as a result of an accident when she was 18 months old.[3] She was scalded with a pan of boiling soup and suffered burns to 75% of her body. Her arm was the only part of her body permanently affected, but the trauma was so severe that she was pronounced clinically dead at the Queen Victoria Hospital in East Grinstead, Sussex.[4]

In 1984 she appeared as Marina in the BBC Shakespeare production of Pericles, Prince of Tyre opposite Mike Gwilym. She also played Maxine in Oxbridge Blues, a British television mini-series, produced by the BBC and first shown in 1984 written by Frederick Raphael. In 1985 she played Janet in the touring version of The Rocky Horror Show.[citation needed]

In 1986 she played Miss Fairfax (Gwendolen) in the BBC Drama production of The Importance Of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde.

She played opposite Liv Ullmann in Richard’s Things (1980), took over from Alfred Molina in the 1990s comedy drama El C.I.D., playing a new female lead in the series, and played Diana Dors in the TV film The Blonde Bombshell (1999). She presented an MTV show on satellite TV in the 1990s. She co-starred in the first two series of Dangerfield in 1995, playing Joanna Stevens, and played a role in Taggart the same year. In 2000 she played Deedee Dove in the feature film Sexy Beast. From 2000 until 2003 she played Alison Braithwaite, a woman whose life is turned upside down after she wins the lottery, in ITV‘s At Home with the Braithwaites. Beginning in 2003, Redman took the role of DSI Sandra Pullman in the BBC’sNew Tricks.

In 2018, she became a patron of Brighton Open Air Theatre. She told the Brighton Argus, ‘My stepfather used to bowl right here where the theatre is and my mother used to live in Dyke Road. When I was told about the history of this place I was incredibly moved. Whenever there is a venture where people are honestly trying to put something back into the community, you have to help however you can.’[8]

Jing Lusi was born in Shanghai and moved to England with her parents at the age of five. After graduating law from University College London, Lusi went on to become one of the most prominent Asian actresses in the UK. She has appeared across TV (Stan Lee’s Lucky Man (2016), Scott & Bailey (2011)), film (Survivor (2015), Crazy Rich Asians (2018)…